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H-Net's network for women's history

H-Women's purpose is to enable historians more easily to discuss research interests, teaching methods, and the state of the field and historiography of women's studies. H-Women is especially interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings.

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Quite ironically, the time for concentration and intellectual contemplation seems to be eroding at universities.Therefore we have developed the project Writing Ashram- a monastary simulation for academics.

Dear list, The sensational popular response to both the novel and the film closely following it has not received the analysis it deserves, in my view. Too often, we celebrate distinguished women as if their contributions trickle down to the less famous of our gender. Certain subjects go almost entirely ignored, such as the increasing acceptability of sadomasochism in television and movies.

As the new Series Editor forThe Body, Gender and Culture book series published with Pickering & Chatto, I welcome proposals for monographs or edited essay collections from established scholars and first-time authors alike. This series moves beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries within gender and sexuality studies and cultural history, and explores how factors such as religion, environment, social constraints, law, work, leisure, economics and medicine bear upon the human body.